Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
TSIGARIDAS PANAGIOTIS wrote: I believe, I found part of the following text in WAP Forum's WEB-pages. However, I think the answer -from business and technology point of view- is simple; Is WAP mobile Internet ? Yes and NO WAP is using existing Internet standards. The WAP architecture was designed to enable standard Internet servers to provide services to wireless devices. In other words - a gateway? If so, then it is a gateway to non-internet devices. They are not just disconnected devices. Many people have laptops that are connected then disconnected from an ISP. The mobile phones use a different protocol suite to perform their operations. I am not saying that is bad. Just that it seems to me to they are saying that they are providing a gateway to the internet for non-internet devices. Otherwise is all they would need is a bridge or router. In addition, when communicating with wireless devices, WAP uses many Internet standards such as XML, UDP and IP. The WAP wireless protocols are based on Internet standards such as HTTP and TLS but have been optimised for the unique constraints of the wireless environment. And much email is still sent in ASCII (IEEE I think), that does mean that all internet email systems are IEEE devices. Internet standards such as HTML, HTTP, TLS and TCP are inefficient over mobile networks, requiring: ... Orthogonal to the issue here - "is it the internet"?
RE: Is WAP mobile Internet??
I have no access to WAP as it is, so far. Can see a glimpse through the Internet! Anybody who can give any suggestions however will not get a prize "Parkinson, Jonathan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06-07-2000 03:30:32 PM To: 'Jon Crowcroft' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Wellas I see it, and belive me I may be wrong 'Its been known' :-) This been the IETF talks about well Internet ... I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet Umbrella ? 1 youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page 2/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or UDP/IP A)youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page (Yes but you can navigate via WAP I.E BT Genie) and there are places/portals that transform a webpage to WAP format. B/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or UDP/IP. Does it need to be if the Web/Wap app can handle this format? -Original Message- From: Jon Crowcroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:19 PM To: Parkinson, Jonathan Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is WAP mobile Internet?? In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet Umbrella ? 1 youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page 2/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or UDP/IP ergo its not internet, its not Internet, and its not provided by Internet Service Providers, and this is Very Silly WAP is quite a neat idea but its a prototype - as folks have said, SMS is very cool - generalisations of it are cooler - native IP based ones cooler stil coz then your application base can benefot from the breadth and depth of stuff that people develop all around the world for IP and the disciplines and understanding of markets that ISPs now have.. mobile telephony service providers have a reasonable understanding of one thing - telephony, based in years of fixed/wireline telephony - however, this doesnt mean they haev much of a clue when it comes to software based services that people are exponentiateding in the native IP world.. Thanks Jon -Original Message- From: Ashutosh Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:25 PM To: 'Taylor, Johnny' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi all, I fully agree with Lars. Even I believe WAP does not fall under the Internet Umbrella Ashutosh Agarwal e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your thoughts and you change your world. The Buddha -Original Message- From: Taylor, Johnny [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 12:15 AM To: Lars-Erik Jonsson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? The Internet allows all protocols to in-operate with her. This is the uniqueness of the web. Therefore WAP falls within this area! -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions) cheers jon The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
hi arindam try any of the WAP Emulators - from Nokia.com , phone.com etc Using that you can get the feel of the WAP world . cheers Aditya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no access to WAP as it is, so far. Can see a glimpse through the Internet! Anybody who can give any suggestions however will not get a prize "Parkinson, Jonathan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06-07-2000 03:30:32 PM To: 'Jon Crowcroft' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Wellas I see it, and belive me I may be wrong 'Its been known' :-) This been the IETF talks about well Internet ... I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet Umbrella ? 1 youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page 2/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or UDP/IP A)youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page (Yes but you can navigate via WAP I.E BT Genie) and there are places/portals that transform a webpage to WAP format. B/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or UDP/IP. Does it need to be if the Web/Wap app can handle this format? -Original Message- From: Jon Crowcroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:19 PM To: Parkinson, Jonathan Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is WAP mobile Internet?? In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet Umbrella ? 1 youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page 2/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or UDP/IP ergo its not internet, its not Internet, and its not provided by Internet Service Providers, and this is Very Silly WAP is quite a neat idea but its a prototype - as folks have said, SMS is very cool - generalisations of it are cooler - native IP based ones cooler stil coz then your application base can benefot from the breadth and depth of stuff that people develop all around the world for IP and the disciplines and understanding of markets that ISPs now have.. mobile telephony service providers have a reasonable understanding of one thing - telephony, based in years of fixed/wireline telephony - however, this doesnt mean they haev much of a clue when it comes to software based services that people are exponentiateding in the native IP world.. Thanks Jon -Original Message- From: Ashutosh Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:25 PM To: 'Taylor, Johnny' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi all, I fully agree with Lars. Even I believe WAP does not fall under the Internet Umbrella Ashutosh Agarwal e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your thoughts and you change your world. The Buddha -Original Message- From: Taylor, Johnny [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 12:15 AM To: Lars-Erik Jonsson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? The Internet allows all protocols to in-operate with her. This is the uniqueness of the web. Therefore WAP falls within this area! -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions) cheers jon The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.
Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
Does it need to be if the Web/Wap app can handle this format? web/wap apps handle a very small number of protocols compared to the protocols that are handled by IP and used in practice. Keith
Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
Vernon Schryver wrote: think we mean having unincumbered availability of the common application protocols, email, http, ftp, ssh, ... that's not quite enough; in the UK we're seeing cable-modem ISPs attempt to restrict services to those applications, or to a subset of those applications (lotsa luck setting up an http server or using ssh.) ... and also like AOL's redirecting proxies for out-bound SMTP? and the port-25 filtering of many ISP's including UUNET? From: Rick H Wesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] would pacbell filtering all multicast at all CPE equipemt fall into your bucket, where do you draw the line? At IP, as Bob Braden said. SMTP is _over_ IP. Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof); it could be argued that a service provider sells 'Internet' without selling multicast IP. Joe
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From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... would pacbell filtering all multicast at all CPE equipemt fall into your bucket, where do you draw the line? At IP, as Bob Braden said. SMTP is _over_ IP. Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof); it could be argued that a service provider sells 'Internet' without selling multicast IP. That grossly overstates the difference between multicast IP services and classic IP services. For one thing, many multicast applications work fine, albeit with rather reduced scope, when sent to the local IP broadcast address instead of a multicast address. For another, since CIDR "_redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof", are ISP's that sell non-classful blocks not in the IP business? It's also a of a stretch to call the 1985 change of class D from "unused" or "reserved" to the multicast space a redefinition of the IP address space. (RFC 966 mentions the change. RFC 960 still said "Note: No addresses are allowed with the three highest-order bits set to 1-1-1. These addresses (sometimes called "class D") are reserved.") Vernon Schryver[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bob Braden writes: -Original Message- Jon Postel would have said: If it speaks IP (UDP/TCP are not necessary), then it's Internet, else not. I will add a bit to this discussion. 1. A WAP phone without an IP address is not an Internet device. And, no one claims so. 2. A WAP device can have both IP and non-IP addresses. So a WAP device could be an Internet device at one time and non-Internet device a bit later (at least in theory). 3. An IP address is not very useful on most mobile (cellular) devices. A lot of useful services and applications can be provided without IP on the wireless devices. That includes sending and receiving mails to/from the Internet, and limited web browsing via proxy gateways. 4. Wireless web access using IP is already here, but very few bother to use it. Networks with the ability to handle IP traffic such as CDPD have traditionally very low (as per my info, under 15% or so) capacity utilization and just about every network is under utilized, and in big loss situation, so much for IP access in wireless devices. At the same time GSM SMS which needs no IP addressing has a tremendous demands. So go figure out utility and economics of IP addresses in wireless devices for now. Cheers, --brijesh Ennovate Networks Inc.
Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
Vernon Schryver wrote: From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... would pacbell filtering all multicast at all CPE equipemt fall into your bucket, where do you draw the line? At IP, as Bob Braden said. SMTP is _over_ IP. Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof); it could be argued that a service provider sells 'Internet' without selling multicast IP. That grossly overstates the difference between multicast IP services and classic IP services. For one thing, many multicast applications work fine, albeit with rather reduced scope, when sent to the local IP broadcast address instead of a multicast address. For another, since CIDR "_redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof", are ISP's that sell non-classful blocks not in the IP business? 'Internet' is about speaking IP and ICMP. There are many variants of routing; none are required to be deployed _throughout_ the Internet. Static routes are sufficient, and 'who speaks what routing protocol' and 'what the routes mean' (CIDR included) is a matter of consensus among parties exchanging a single routing protocol, not an Internet-wide requirement. It's also a of a stretch to call the 1985 change of class D from "unused" or "reserved" to the multicast space a redefinition of the IP address space. Under classic IP, class D was defined as unused/reserved; under multicast IP, class D is now defined as multicast. That is the purest form of the change of a definition. While it affects only a portion of all IP packets, it did redefine the meaning of that portion. (it redefined the meaning of values of the space, not the partitioning of the space). Joe
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Joe; would pacbell filtering all multicast at all CPE equipemt fall into your bucket, where do you draw the line? At IP, as Bob Braden said. SMTP is _over_ IP. Wrong. RFC821 says: SMTP is independent of the particular transmission subsystem and requires only a reliable ordered data stream channel. Appendices A, B, C, and D describe the use of SMTP with various transport services. A Glossary provides the definitions of terms as used in this document. Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof); it could be argued that a service provider sells 'Internet' without selling multicast IP. See STD1 for a list of "required" protocols. Masataka Ohta
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Great Catch. It doesn't get any more Mobile on the Internet then that! -Original Message- From: Parkinson, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 8:24 AM To: 'Lars-Erik Jonsson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Okay WAP at the moment is only in its baby stage, hence a few mobile phones have it and a few other devices, and yes at the moment its not very good, but that's because of the current technology. I know I keep going on about it, but, I'm sure Bluetooth can and will change the way people use WAP and as the applications become Bluetooth enabled, WAP is a perfect way of transmitting data. Have a look at http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid%5F791000/791297.stm Sony has said It is planning to put the Bluetooth short range wireless technology in almost every gadget it produces making it easier to get at data in any device, whether that is messages, music or video. IE Walkmans, laptops, digital cameras and even electronic pets like the Aibo robotic. WAP will be a perfect side technology for this. 'This is just my opinion and not that of Compaq's (Yet :-))' -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions)
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Good Point I will tap into Japan Wireless infra-structure! -Original Message- From: Renfield Kuroda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 9:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is WAP mobile Internet?? I don't think WAP Mobile Internet any more than TCP/IP is Internet. The Mobile Internet is data/communication devices you carry around with you. Here in Japan we have 8 million non-WAP mobile internet users, plus another 2 million WAP users, and the numbers are exploding. But, and I know this may be the wrong mailing list for this comment, the point is a non-technical one. Users don't care if it's WAP/WML, or cHTML or MML or text SMS, on a cdmaONE network, PDC-P, or what. Technically, I think many agree that WAP and its various technical standards are ill-conceived and poorly executed, but that doesn't mean the potential of the Mobile Internet isn't there. I personally think if WAP migrated to xHTML and operators looked at the successes here in Japan, than the next generation of WAP phones (or whatever you call them) really can and will be Mobile Internet. Regards, r e n Lars-Erik Jonsson wrote: Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions) -- ascii: r e n f i e l d octal: \162 \145 \156 \146 \151 \145 \154 \144 hex: \x72 \x65 \x6e \x66 \x69 \x65 \x6c \x64 morgan stanley dean witter japan e-business technologies | engineering and strategy
RE: Is WAP mobile Internet??
The Internet allows all protocols to in-operate with her. This is the uniqueness of the web. Therefore WAP falls within this area! -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions)
RE: Is WAP mobile Internet??
Well the web is indeed the Internet we are talking about The Internet is an internet, but an internet is not an Internet always Ashutosh Agarwal e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your thoughts and you change your world. The Buddha -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 6:48 PM To: Taylor, Johnny; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is WAP mobile Internet?? The Web is NOT the Internet. The Web is one Internet application. /L-E The Internet allows all protocols to in-operate with her. This is the uniqueness of the web. Therefore WAP falls within this area! -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions)
RE: Is WAP mobile Internet??
I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet Umbrella ? Thanks Jon -Original Message- From: Ashutosh Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:25 PM To: 'Taylor, Johnny' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi all, I fully agree with Lars. Even I believe WAP does not fall under the Internet Umbrella Ashutosh Agarwal e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change your thoughts and you change your world. The Buddha -Original Message- From: Taylor, Johnny [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 12:15 AM To: Lars-Erik Jonsson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Is WAP mobile Internet?? The Internet allows all protocols to in-operate with her. This is the uniqueness of the web. Therefore WAP falls within this area! -Original Message- From: Lars-Erik Jonsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 7:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is WAP mobile Internet?? Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions)
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if i have a device which can only send and receive email, am i "on the internet?" if i have a device that lets me send and receive messages to/from internet users, am i "on the internet" note that sms with a gateway satisfies the last one. my point is not to push sms or whatever. but that by "on the internet" i think we mean having unincumbered availability of the common application protocols, email, http, ftp, ssh, ... i may not choose to use/install them all, but the commumications technology i use (note this did not say the end device) should not prevent me from doing so. e.g. that one-chip web server, with no human interface, is indeed "on the internet." a wap phone is not internet, it's waporware tm! randy
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Stewart Nolan wrote: The web sits atop the internet, as do the protocols mentioned, as does WAP. Yes - the Internet in my mind is just a collection of protocols, be they what they may. Over what physical medium data travel is irrelevant, but doesn't the term "on the Internet" mean the object can query and be queryied, over this infrastructure? -- steven
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--Original Message- -From: Jon Crowcroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:19 AM -To: Parkinson, Jonathan -Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Subject: Re: Is WAP mobile Internet?? - - - -In message -[EMAIL PROTECTED], -"Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: - - I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way -of transmitting - data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall -under the Internet - Umbrella ? - -1 youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page -2/ you can't get at an arbitraty application written on TCP/IP or -UDP/IP Jon, I wonder how WAP will fit into Multicast apps - even if its single line txt based msg's app ? /pd
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Jon, I wonder how WAP will fit into Multicast apps - even if its single line txt based msg's app ? football scores/(tennis etc) share price (look at stockbroker trading terminal - they have very small amount of realestate for the given instrument) many many things would work v. well - iff you had full ip capability... i guess you'd need an rtp mixer capability in the net for packet ip multiast as mixing at the receiver might stress the limited capacity...although as next generation rolls out, this might change too then ip voice conferencing using multicast (which kind of maps well onto real shared capacity channels anyhow) would be quite cute... a lot of sip stuff would be v. cute too (a lot of fancy call handling scripting things would be dead useful to be able to download onto the phone.)... cheers jon
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From: Lloyd Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... my point is not to push sms or whatever. but that by "on the internet" i think we mean having unincumbered availability of the common application protocols, email, http, ftp, ssh, ... that's not quite enough; in the UK we're seeing cable-modem ISPs attempt to restrict services to those applications, or to a subset of those applications (lotsa luck setting up an http server or using ssh.) ... and also like AOL's redirecting proxies for out-bound SMTP? and the port-25 filtering of many ISP's including UUNET? Vernon Schryver[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vernon, would pacbell filtering all multicast at all CPE equipemt fall into your bucket, where do you draw the line? -rick On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Vernon Schryver wrote: From: Lloyd Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... my point is not to push sms or whatever. but that by "on the internet" i think we mean having unincumbered availability of the common application protocols, email, http, ftp, ssh, ... that's not quite enough; in the UK we're seeing cable-modem ISPs attempt to restrict services to those applications, or to a subset of those applications (lotsa luck setting up an http server or using ssh.) ... and also like AOL's redirecting proxies for out-bound SMTP? and the port-25 filtering of many ISP's including UUNET? Vernon Schryver[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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* From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 5 08:58:47 2000 * To: "Parkinson, Jonathan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] * cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: Re: Is WAP mobile Internet?? * In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:15:13 BST." [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:19:23 +0100 * From: Jon Crowcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] * X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Content-Length: 3148 * X-Lines: 95 * * * In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], * "Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: * * I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting * data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet * Umbrella ? * Jon Postel would have said: If it speaks IP (UDP/TCP are not necessary), then it's Internet, else not. However, during the 1980s the IAB tried to float the concept of an extended Internet defined by email connectivity. Bob Braden
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Jon Postel would have said: If it speaks IP (UDP/TCP are not necessary), then it's Internet, else not. I thought part of the argument was about capitalization of the I. if its lowercase, then its using IP, if its uppercase then you can expect to use global Internet addresses and achieve a substantive amount of end-to-end connectivity. Of course, that was before NAT. However, during the 1980s the IAB tried to float the concept of an extended Internet defined by email connectivity. Is this different to John Quartermains Matrix definition? Gosh, how prescient to choose that word... -George -- George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| University of Qld 4072 Phone: +61 7 3365 4310| Australia Fax: +61 7 3365 4311| http://www.dstc.edu.au
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At 13.54 +0200 00-06-30, Lars-Erik Jonsson wrote: I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". Well, Ericsson do in their ads :-) :-) (I say to a person at Ericsson). From my point of view, you can (through a proxy service) access (some) Internet Services via WAP, but not Internet. Exactly because of the reasons you listed in your email. Internet is end2end IP. If you understand swedish, you can find one specification of "what should be part of an Internet connection" on http://www.itkommissionen.se/obs/obs_spec.html It specifies what is needed for calling something "Internet". Nothing connected to WAP will pass those tests. paf
Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
I don't think WAP Mobile Internet any more than TCP/IP is Internet. The Mobile Internet is data/communication devices you carry around with you. Here in Japan we have 8 million non-WAP mobile internet users, plus another 2 million WAP users, and the numbers are exploding. But, and I know this may be the wrong mailing list for this comment, the point is a non-technical one. Users don't care if it's WAP/WML, or cHTML or MML or text SMS, on a cdmaONE network, PDC-P, or what. Technically, I think many agree that WAP and its various technical standards are ill-conceived and poorly executed, but that doesn't mean the potential of the Mobile Internet isn't there. I personally think if WAP migrated to xHTML and operators looked at the successes here in Japan, than the next generation of WAP phones (or whatever you call them) really can and will be Mobile Internet. Regards, r e n Lars-Erik Jonsson wrote: Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should not use WAP (even if I have my opinions about WAP). If they believe in WAP that is their problem, but when they try to use the words WAP and Internet in the same sentence I think it is time to clarify a few things. I accept that WAP is there, but be honest about what it is. Cheers! /Lars-Erik (expressing my PERSONAL opinions) -- ascii: r e n f i e l d octal: \162 \145 \156 \146 \151 \145 \154 \144 hex: \x72 \x65 \x6e \x66 \x69 \x65 \x6c \x64 morgan stanley dean witter japan e-business technologies | engineering and strategy S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??
r e n; I don't think WAP Mobile Internet any more than TCP/IP is Internet. There is no such thing as WAP Mobile Internet. The Mobile Internet is data/communication devices you carry around with you. Here in Japan we have 8 million non-WAP mobile internet users, plus another 2 million WAP users, and the numbers are exploding. They are no internet users. Just as the Internet was not e-mail several years ago when e-mail was the most popular application, the Internet is not web. But, and I know this may be the wrong mailing list for this comment, No. It is merely that your understanding on the Internet is wrong in any mailing list. Masataka Ohta
